A Willow Planted by Chance Grows into Shade (Revised)

After breakfast, Liu Chang'an and An Nuan went to school together.

Liu Chang'an's classroom building is relatively close to the Juyuan residential area, while An Nuan's college requires taking a school bus. So, they usually walk to the school bus stop and then separate to go to their respective classrooms. There's nothing they can do about it; the campus is too big, and many couples from different colleges feel like they're in a long-distance relationship.

The universities in Mount Lu University Town are considered good. If you go to a school like Jilin University, the feeling of being in a long-distance relationship with someone from the same school will be even stronger. After all, the beautiful Changchun is located on the campus of Jilin University, and the bus routes that run through the entire Changchun can actually be used as shuttle buses for Jilin University.

As for universities with branch campuses, couples who apply together need to be even more careful, because if they're not careful, the distance between them could span the entire country.

Mid-Autumn Festival, the middle of autumn, the weather is bright and clear with a cool breeze, it's a very pleasant time. The osmanthus flowers in Xiangtan University campus have all fallen, and the willow leaves by the waterway have also fallen one after another, carpeting the ground with layers of golden leaves.

"This used to be a golden willow, but it wasn't well cared for; there are hardly any branches left," Liu Chang'an said, looking at a thick tree stump.

"Where can you find such a big willow tree?" An Nuan glanced at it; the stump was much thicker than that of an ordinary willow tree.

"The Golden Willow is a hybrid, with a broad, rounded crown, large branches, and winding, twisting twigs that are long, thin, and very dense. Its leaves are also narrow, with silvery down on them, turning pale yellow in spring and golden yellow in summer—it's especially beautiful," Liu Chang'an said with some regret. "These branches were probably diseased and have all been cut off; I need to think of a way to save it."

As he spoke, Liu Chang'an abandoned his rush to class and squatted down to examine the condition of the golden willow tree.

"Wow, there really is such a big willow tree! I never noticed it here before. It seems its illness wasn't a recent development." An Nuan thought for a moment. She lived on the campus of Xiangtan University and didn't recall seeing a large, golden-yellow, domed willow tree like the one Liu Chang'an described.

Liu Chang'an peeled back the bark and tapped the trunk; the sound was somewhat loose and weak, indicating that the tree was indeed very ill.

"The school's gardeners are too busy. They don't even have time to maintain such old trees. If they had given them some nutrients and treated them for pests earlier, this wouldn't be the case." Liu Chang'an held out his hand to An Nuan, "Give me the pencil sharpener."

An Nuan pulled out a pencil sharpener. Her boyfriend was truly unique; who would suddenly become a tree maintainer on their way to school?

Liu Chang'an used a small knife to scrape several places on the tree, but couldn't find a place with enough healthy and vigorous growth. Finally, he scraped out fresh and moist wood from a thick root near the ground. Liu Chang'an then carefully dug a small hole two centimeters deep there, put his tongue against his palate to produce saliva, spat out a hole full of saliva, and finally filled it with the moist wood shavings he had dug out.

"You're going to save this tree like this?" An Nuan stared in disbelief as her boyfriend earnestly spat a mouthful of saliva onto the poor, sick tree.

Liu Chang'an nodded and clapped his hands.

"If this is how you can save it, I'll hang upside down from this tree." An Nuan raised her hand and swore that she absolutely did not believe it.

"Okay, just make sure you don't expose yourself. I'll be there to witness it. Let it hang there for an hour." Liu Chang'an was happy to agree.

"If you can't be saved, you can hang upside down." An Nuan chuckled. This boring guy, making him do such a pointless thing during such a wonderful time on their way to school together, deserves some punishment.

Liu Chang'an had no objections.

"As the saying goes, 'You may plant flowers with care, but they may not bloom; you may plant willows without care, and they may thrive.' Willows are actually very easy to grow." Liu Chang'an spit a lot of saliva, but plants don't absorb the essence from his saliva as well as humans and animals, especially old, withered, and diseased trees. That's why he used this method... It didn't remove the root of the old tree's disease; it just boosted its own immunity, allowing it to recover naturally.

An Nuan looked at Liu Chang'an with suspicion.

"Um?"

"Don't you think there's something wrong with that statement?" An Nuan reminded him that he shouldn't use such ambiguous colloquialisms in the future.

"What's the problem?" Liu Chang'an asked, puzzled.

"Why did you have to plant a willow tree of all things? In short, I've designated this sentence as 404 content, and it must be censored," An Nuan announced loudly.

"How can you be so vulgar?" Liu Chang'an cupped his hands in admiration.

"I... I didn't... who told you to be all lovey-dovey this morning?" An Nuan had been bothered by it all morning.

So Liu Chang'an recounted to her the conversation he had with Liu Yuewang after An Nuan fell asleep.

"Oh... oh... I see." An Nuan blushed. "It seems my mom... my mom really considers you her son-in-law, that's why she's so affectionate."

"She's quite reasonable." Liu Chang'an nodded. An Nuan's jealousy was no less than Su Nanxiu's, but An Nuan was much more reasonable and understanding.

"I'll just kiss you... You can't think I'm being unreasonable," An Nuan suggested.

"You can be unreasonable yourself, but you don't allow others to think you're being unreasonable?"

"Hmm... I'm just like this... Is that okay?" An Nuan clung to Liu Chang'an's arm, winking as she hinted that she was giving him a reward.

"Wow, it doesn't feel like a sure thing anymore." Liu Chang'an exclaimed in surprise, looking at the way his arm was being hugged in her chest.

"What do you mean by 'a sure thing'?" An Nuan was taken aback.

Even An Nuan, who usually has many lewd thoughts and jokes swirling in her mind, only realized what was happening after a moment, and her face immediately turned bright red.

She felt not only ashamed of being teased, but also angry at being wrongly accused! She had always claimed to have two D-cups, so how could it be a done deal?

Shame and anger surged up from her neck, and as if she had been standing upside down for too long, her whole face flushed red. An Nuan stopped hitting people with her little fists and raised her leg to kick Liu Chang'an.

Liu Chang'an ran away quickly.

"Liu Chang'an, you stop right there!"

An Nuan chased after him, panting, but no matter how long her legs were, she couldn't outrun Liu Chang'an. She didn't give up until she saw the school bus stop. She swore that she was already 750 points angry, and Liu Chang'an hadn't given her a perfect coaxing. She would ignore him for at least ten days... five days... or even two days!

Liu Chang'an went to the dormitory to get his camera. Wei Xuanyi, Sun Shutong, and Qin Zhiqiang, who had stayed up all night, had already returned. They smelled of water soaked with cigarette butts on their bodies, their hair was greasy, and their clothes were wrinkled. It seemed they were planning to go to class like that.

Undoubtedly, after so long since the start of the semester, the novelty has worn off considerably, and people are starting to feel a bit jaded about their image in the eyes of their classmates.

We're all so familiar with each other, why pretend anymore? It's common for students to start school as the Meteor Garden F4 and graduate as the Ivory Mountain F4.

"We were unbeatable when we played games together last night," Wei Xuanyi said while eating a fried dough stick.

"It's all thanks to my rhythm, okay? Five games as a jungler, three MVPs!" Sun Shutong said calmly.

"My Jinx is the real carry, okay? It's just that I didn't find a good support. In the last game, that Alistar was practically possessed by PYL (a popular streamer), dying wherever he went." Qin Zhiqiang shook his head and sighed. It's so difficult for an ADC to find a good support. And when an ADC plays well, it's common for the female support to feed the enemy team.

"What rank are you playing?" Liu Chang'an asked.

Wei Xuanyi was slightly embarrassed, "We can't play ranked matches with Qin Zhiqiang, we play normal matches."

Liu Chang'an nodded to indicate that he understood. It turned out that apart from Qin Zhiqiang, the other two were both noobs. Qin Zhiqiang's highest rank was Diamond, so they couldn't play ranked together. That meant that they were mostly Gold and Silver.

"Impressive," Liu Chang'an said admiringly.

Liu Chang'an waited for them for a while, then the clean-looking Liu Chang'an went to the classroom with the three smelly ones.

Zhu Juntang had already arrived at the classroom and was waving at Liu Chang'an.

"Shall we sit together?" Liu Chang'an said, turning around.

The three of them shook their heads. Although they were no longer particularly concerned about their image, this was Zhu Juntang. They felt that sitting next to Zhu Juntang, covered in smoky smells, would be disrespectful to such a beautiful woman, and they didn't have the courage to do so.

Liu Chang'an sat down next to Zhu Juntang. He had been at An Nuan's house yesterday, so he naturally didn't bring his books to class today, Zhu Juntang did.

Yan Qingcheng arrived with a group consisting of only a few girls from her class. She glanced at Liu Chang'an and Zhu Juntang from afar, hesitated for a moment, and then sat down with the others in the second row in front of Zhu Juntang.

"I asked Su Nanxiu, and she disagreed." Zhu Juntang was very unhappy.

"She just disagrees, not that there's no way to resolve it?" Liu Chang'an wanted to confirm.

Zhu Juntang thought about it and realized that there was indeed a difference between disagreeing and having no choice. That was the case. Su Nanxiu genuinely felt that it was unnecessary.

"Then keep trying! Just say that because you don't have big breasts, you're not smart, and you have no interest or motivation to learn how to take over the Zhu Family's conglomerate," Liu Chang'an suggested.

"Are you indirectly insulting me by saying I'm both flat-chested and brainless?" Zhu Juntang looked at Liu Chang'an suspiciously.

"Yes," Liu Chang'an replied honestly.

Zhu Juntang punched Liu Chang'an, her brows furrowed. Once she learned that Su Nanxiu really did have a solution, Zhu Juntang couldn't help but get restless. Without getting something like big breasts, she had no interest in doing anything, not even flipping through the new dresses and books that Zhong Qing had chosen.

"How about this, you're eloquent, you go and talk to them for me." Zhu Juntang thought for a moment, then suddenly had a brilliant idea. Liu Chang'an's mouth could fool anyone, from five- or six-year-old girls to white-haired, wrinkled old ladies!

"You want me to go to Su Nanxiu and persuade her to give you big breasts?" Liu Chang'an wasn't sure where Su Nanxiu's tolerance for Zhu Juntang's bottom line was. If it were someone else, Su Nanxiu would probably put them on her list of people she would ruin and destroy.

Su Nanxiu wouldn't let Zhu Juntang go bankrupt and her family ruined, after all, there was no reason for her to manipulate her own assets in the same way that Zhu Juntang had dealt with the Chen Family.

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